Upcoming Seminars
Feb. 9th, 11:30 AM
Seminar presented by Qiyang Han Conventional statistical inference methods are typically developed for models simple enough to admit tractable estimators through carefully designed iterative algorithms. In contrast, modern deep learning models are enormously complex, yet are trained by…
GUG 218
Feb. 23rd, 11:30 AM
Seminar presented by Lucas JansonIn regression and causal inference, controlled subgroup selection aims to identify, with inferential guarantees, a subgroup (defined as a subset of the covariate space) on which the average response or treatment effect is above a given threshold. E.g.,…
GUG 218
Mar. 2nd, 11:30 AM
Seminar presented by Jingshu WangA common problem in statistics is how to combine results from many tests when the tests are not independent. Traditional approaches, like Bonferroni, are valid but often overly conservative and lose power. Recently, “heavy-tailed” methods, such as the…
GUG 218
Academic Job Opportunities
Lecturer Part-Time
Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Lecturer Part-Time position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This is a multi-year, part-time position with a 9-month service period September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 16, 2026. The base full-time salary range for this position will be $8,000 - $11,500 per month. Compensation level will be based on professional experience and level of assigned duties.
Statistics Graders and Tutors
Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.
Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary
Applications are invited for a Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.
This appointment is for a part-time temporary position, with either a quarterly (September 16 - December 15 for Autumn quarter, December 16 - March 15 for Winter quarter, or March 16 - June 15 for Spring quarter) or a 9-month (September 16 - June 15) service period, depending on departmental needs.
Research Papers
Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024
Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…
Recent News
UW Statistics Professor and Chair Abel Rodriguez will be speaking at the “Statistics and Data Science Programs – Challenges and Opportunities” workshop, to be held at the WashU campus in St. Louis on…
Congratulations to Shreya Prakash, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, for being selected as a winner of the 2026 American Statistical Association (ASA) student paper competition jointly…
We are pleased to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student, Olivia McGough, has received an Early Career Award from the ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, for her paper entitled “Valid F-…